Evidence coverage: 1903–1967. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
Successive shared currency-board arrangements are retained as issuance/jurisdiction epochs of the dollar unit.
These stages belong to this profile, not separate branches.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
The locally used Mexican-dollar reckoning differentiated into the Straits dollar through the1903–1906 reform: Mexican dollars were the1890 standard within existing commercial dollar accounts; local dollars replaced them and obtained an independent exchange value. Actual dollar accounts plus explicit local replacement establish ancestry; metal equivalence alone is not the basis.1906 completes independent valuation, not a further node.
Sources and qualifications →Board-currency transition; gradual cash withdrawal not quantified.
C170Successor shared issuance.
C171Includes dated issues, standards, subdivisions and institutional changes. Each event retains the source's date qualifications.
NLB dates British trade dollars to 1895, Straits notes to 1899, and local Straits dollar coins to 1903.
C168NLB dates British trade dollars to 1895, Straits notes to 1899, and local Straits dollar coins to 1903.
C168The 1906 Commons reply records the Straits dollar fixed at two shillings and fourpence sterling.
C169NLB dates the Malayan board to 1938 and legal issue of its new coins to 24 January 1940.
C170NLB dates the Malayan board to 1938 and legal issue of its new coins to 24 January 1940.
C170NLB distinguishes the 1952 Malaya–British Borneo board from its 1953 coinage.
C171NLB distinguishes the 1952 Malaya–British Borneo board from its 1953 coinage.
C171The Straits dollar displaced Mexican dollars among several circulating silver-dollar currencies. Other trade-dollar inputs remain to be individually traced; 1899 note issue predates the new coin.
C956Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
NLB distinguishes the 1952 Malaya–British Borneo board from its 1953 coinage.
Postwar section
Selected issue chronology; 1899 note date used with attribution.
Occupation notes did not erase all prewar legal status.
NLB identifies the 1967 end of shared issuance and separate Singapore, Malaysian and Brunei currencies.
1967 transition
Selected issue chronology; 1899 note date used with attribution.
Occupation notes did not erase all prewar legal status.
NLB dates British trade dollars to 1895, Straits notes to 1899, and local Straits dollar coins to 1903.
Straits section
Selected issue chronology; 1899 note date used with attribution.
Occupation notes did not erase all prewar legal status.
The 1906 Commons reply records the Straits dollar fixed at two shillings and fourpence sterling.
Minister’s reply
Adopt fixed 2s 4d rate; a discussed fineness/weight reform is not proof of actual issue.
NLB dates the Malayan board to 1938 and legal issue of its new coins to 24 January 1940.
Malayan currency section
Selected issue chronology; 1899 note date used with attribution.
Occupation notes did not erase all prewar legal status.
The Straits dollar displaced Mexican dollars among several circulating silver-dollar currencies. Other trade-dollar inputs remain to be individually traced; 1899 note issue predates the new coin.
1867–1903 and 1903–1939 sections
Selected issue chronology; 1899 note date used with attribution.
Occupation notes did not erase all prewar legal status.
NLB describes occupation notes in 1942–1945 while prewar notes retained legal status.
Occupation section
Selected issue chronology; 1899 note date used with attribution.
Occupation notes did not erase all prewar legal status.
The locally used Mexican-dollar reckoning differentiated into the Straits dollar through the1903–1906 reform: Mexican dollars were the1890 standard within existing commercial dollar accounts; local dollars replaced them and obtained an independent exchange value.
ChapterXI pp.136–141
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Riau adopted a separateKRrupiah while withdrawing/converting Malayan dollars; government payments previously made under Malayan-dollar arrangements were paid inKR.
Penpres9arts1–4; Perpres21arts1–2 and explanation
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Original-law book transcription pages 230–231 inspected: KRrupiah unit defined; Malayan dollars circulate alongside temporarily then must be withdrawn/converted; territorial tender limitation.
Penpres9arts1–4; Perpres21arts1–2 and explanation
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Full legal transcription inspected.
OCR table not reliable enough to transcribe rates.